“Edom aided & abetted Babylon during the fall of Jerusalem. They cut-off their escape, killing fleeing Judahites who were historically their brothers.
We aid & abet our spiritual foes when we hinder believers who are escaping from sin.
The most common way that we do this is by stumbling them. You have the freedom to partake of, and be involved with, anything that is not explicitly identified as sin. Maybe I don’t have that freedom, and therein lies the problem. If you exercise your freedom around me, I can be tripped-up by it.
Freedom is good and we don’t want to encourage rigid rule-keeping as a path of righteousness. Like everything else the ultimate solution is to ‘LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’
Do that and you won’t stumble others, nor will you be stumbled.”
